Waxworks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Waxworks write by Michelle E. Bloom. This book was released on 2003. Waxworks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. London, 1921. The world's greatest wax sculptor watches in horror as flames consume his museum and melt his uncannily lifelike creations. Twelve years later, he opens a wax museum in New York. Crippled, disfigured, and driven mad by the fire, he resorts to body snatching and murder to populate his displays, preserving the bodies in wax. "In a thousand years you will be as lovely as you are now, " he assures one victim. In The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), director Michael Curtiz perfectly captures the macabre essence of realistic wax figures that have excited the darker aspects of the public's imagination ever since Madame Tussaud established her famous museum in London in 1802. Artists, too, have been fascinated by wax sculptures, seeing in them--and in the unique properties of wax itself--an eerie metaphoric power with which to address sexual anxiety, fears of mortality, and other morbid subjects. In Waxworks, Michelle E. Bloom explores the motif of the wax figure in European and American literature and art. In particular, she connects the myth of Pygmalion to the obsession with wax statues of women in the nineteenth-century fetishization of prostitutes and female corpses and as depicted in such "wax fictions" as Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop (1841). Filmmakers, too, have sought inspiration from wax museums, and Bloom analyzes works from the silent era to such waxwork-themed Hollywood horror films as Mad Love (1935) and House of Wax (1953). Bringing her discussion to the present, Bloom examines the work of contemporary artists who use the medium of wax in ways never imagined by Madame Tussaud. As extravagant new wax museums open in Las Vegas, Times Square, and Paris, Waxworksoffers a provocative cultural history of this enduring--and disturbing--art form.
Joe Smith & His Waxworks
Joe Smith & His Waxworks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Joe Smith & His Waxworks write by Bill Smith. This book was released on 1896. Joe Smith & His Waxworks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Waxworks
Waxworks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Waxworks write by Frieda Hughes. This book was released on 2003. Waxworks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Wicked and witty, this third collection of poetry from internationally acclaimed Frieda Hughes will secure her reputation as a poet with a vital talent. Frieda Hughes was born in London in 1960. She has spent some of her time living and working in Australia. Since studying art, she has exhibited her work in Britain, the U.S and Australia. A talented writer as well as an artist, she has received international acclaim for writing and painting. She has published seven children's books, the most recent being Three Scary Storiesand has two collections of Poetry, Woorolooand Stonepickerboth published by Fremantle Arts Centre Press. Both collections have also been published in the UK and US.
The Haunted Screen
The Haunted Screen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Haunted Screen write by Lotte H. Eisner. This book was released on 2008-09-29. The Haunted Screen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Golden Age of German cinema began at the end of the First World War and ended shortly after the coming of sound. From The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari onwards the principal films of this period were characterized by two influences: literary Expressionism, and the innovations of the theatre directors of this period, in particular Max Reinhardt. This book demonstrates the connection between German Romanticism and the cinema through Expressionist writings. It discusses the influence of the theatre: the handling of crowds; the use of different levels, and of selective lighting on a predominately dark stage; the reliance on formalized gesture; the innovation of the intimate theatre. Against this background the principal films of the period are examined in detail. The author explains the key critical concepts of the time, and surveys not only the work of the great directors, such as Fritz Lang and F. W. Murnau, but also the contribution of their writers, cameramen, and designers. As The Times Literary Supplement wrote, 'Mme. Eisner is first and foremost a film critic, and one of the best in the world. She has all the necessary gifts.' And it described the original French edition of this book as 'one of the very few classics of writing on the film and arguably the best book on the cinema yet written.'
Mrs. Jarley's Far-famed Collection of Waxworks
Mrs. Jarley's Far-famed Collection of Waxworks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mrs. Jarley's Far-famed Collection of Waxworks write by George Bradford Bartlett. This book was released on 1873. Mrs. Jarley's Far-famed Collection of Waxworks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
